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BEIJING, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Chinese startup Z.ai said on Monday it had disabled some features of its flagship AI coding assistant ​after some users reported it was uploading entire local code repositories onto overseas cloud servers without their consent.

Beijing-based ‌Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, apologised in a social media post after Chinese developers last week wrote on social media that its ZCode had uploaded their code data from open-source developer platform Git to Alibaba Cloud.

Z.ai referred Reuters to its public statements when asked for further comment on the ​incident.

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OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the A.I. lab's knowledge, according to security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes.

The incidents involving the Commerce Department and the S.E.C. were confirmed by OpenAI, which said it was continuing to investigate the situation with the Department of Education. The San Francisco company said it had notified the government agencies in recent weeks that its [A.I. agents](https://www.nyti

BENGALURU: “I am CM Vijay. I am here to help you,” a voice and face appearing on a WhatsApp video call allegedly convinced a 29-year-old security guard that he was speaking to Tamil Nadu chief minister and actor C Joseph Vijay.

Promised Rs 11 lakh in financial aid, the unsuspecting man ended up losing over Rs 1 lakh after a fraudster allegedly used a deepfake AI-generated video and repeatedly demanded processing fees and other payments. This is the first such case reported in the city.

According to the complaint filed by Ratikanta Giri, a native of Odisha who has been working in the city for

A person has lost £250,000 after falling victim to an AI-generated scam.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the victim saw what appeared to be an AI-generated video featuring a well-known personality from the financial sector.

The advertisement promoted an investment opportunity and claimed significant returns.

A spokesperson for the PSNI said an "apparent celebrity endorsement" should never be regarded as proof that an investment is genuine.

The PSNI did not confirm who the celebrity was who was used in the AI-generated video, but BBC News NI has seen scams online using fi

OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents, hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and government officials.

The attacks took place in May and June, before OpenAI's technology breached the A.I. start-up Hugging Face in July and set off a global debate about A.I. safety.

Unlike the Hugging Face attack and [other incidents](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/technology/ai-hacks-